Hmmnn… You may be right, but those two angels got in some how, didn’t they?

That’s the problem with worrying about same-sex couples… you start to see them everywhere.

I think everyone is in line, not in a line of pairs, so I think we’re back to square one. And I think there’s nothing more to “get” here. The line of people is just a line of people, and the joke is entirely in the text. And it’s a weak one.

Maybe they were triple dating and their car crashed? I think St. Peter represents the border checkpoint here. I always wondered about the classic view of Heaven and if it had any border patrol or fences or anything. It always seemed pretty wide open. Maybe that was to please the claustrophobics.

I think the line of people is just decorative, not illustrative of the punchline. The “strict immigration law”, of course, has nothing to do with the way we might restrict immigration down here on Earth; it refers to how pious/religious/good you have to be to get into heaven.

What they don’t show are the “border patrol agents” with horns and pitchforks taking the rejects down to their new home.

An acquaintance of mine was frothing at the mouth yesterday over how “blasphemous” it was to compare America and heaven.

Then again, I’m sure there will be 1000 “patriots” out there who honestly believe that every non-American on Earth would give his or her life to be American. As a non-American myself, I can only shake my head sadly, because ho boy is that a common American delusion.